X Faces ‘Massive Cyberattack’ Musk Says Originated in ‘Ukraine Area’

X, formerly known as Twitter, faced a “massive cyberattack” on Monday, which owner Elon Musk said appeared to be “originating in the Ukraine area.”

The Details: Reports of outages that initially spiked early in the morning before receding for a few hours. Reported outages surged again later and carried on throughout the day, with most effecting users of the X mobile app.

Key Quotes: Musk wrote on X, “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.” He later told Fox Business (Lean Right bias), “Well… we're not sure exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the ecosystem with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.”

How The Media Covered It: Several outlets used the site Downdetector as a source for measuring outages throughout the day. Reuters (Center) cited an anonymous “source in the internet infrastructure industry” and reported, “large chunks of the rogue traffic bombarding X could be traced back to IP addresses in the United States, Vietnam, Brazil and other countries, and that the amount of rogue traffic coming directly from Ukraine was ‘insignificant.’” as the source described it.